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Sweat, my university is participating. =] I'd really like to participate, but the problem is I'll be home, far away from the university in the summer, when the competition is taking place. I'm planning a carrier in synthetic biology though, so maybe I should sacrifice a summer at home to take part i...

SecondTalon wrote:Could we.. please narrow this slightly? Nonfiction is mind-bogglingly broad to the point where I don't see a meaningful difference between this and the stickied "Favorite Book" thread.

I'd really like to do some reading on "abiogenesis" or "the origins of life". So far, the best candidate I've found is "The Origins of Life" by David Deamer and Jack W. Szostack. Has anyone read this one? Or have some other suggestions?

Discuss your favourite a non-fictional science books, whether it's a physics textbook, the history of technology, or what ever you might think of. Personally, I can't really think of any, that's why I started this thread. Though, I will say that A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram (creator of M...

Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die... when I point my gun at them First impressions are the most lasting... especially when made by a 9mm Fortune favours the brave, or whoever has the gun Ignorance is bliss if the bomb under your car is about to explode. It is better to give tha...

Thank you for watching it for me Scarecrovv. It sounds like you've saved me 2.5 hours of my life. Mainly because, I already know that neo-liberalism is fucking us up, and we need to stop it now. It's the how that I'm worried about. In the documentary, they make it very clear that they're not presen...

I made some changes to the first post. Now there are no insults and there is a short description of the contents of the documentary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist,_the_Movie Wiki link for the curious. Conspiracy theorist selective interpretation of the facts and outright inaccuracies across...

Looks like there was one person who actually looked at the documentary, and he/she started judging it right from the start. Sure, the first 8 minutes weren't really anything special, and it only gave more and more problems, but the documentary is 2 hours and 40 minutes long for crying out loud, he g...

Ok, so this is about a movie (a documentary in particular), but I don't think this belongs in the "Movies and TV shows" forum, as this is not just entertainment but I sincerely hope many will watch it and think about what is being said. [EDIT: sentence deleted]. Of course, as always when w...

I'm having trouble finding anything on discrete mathematics. The book we're using in class is terrible, and I'm kind of short on lecture notes. I found some on this website, which someone listed earlier: http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~wchen/ln.html But it isn't really satisfying. Don't think anyone has...

I would like to do what it says in the title of this thread. I'd like to do it on my computer, but I'm not sure how to. What I mean by mathematically correct art, is geometrical shapes like the golden spiral, polygons, a deltoid curve...stuff like that.

I can't stand how little faith people have in science and scientists. When dealing with such people, in my experience, the only argument they have is that scientists can't possibly know all that (and that can't really be accepted as an argument). For hundreds (or thousands) of years we have develope...

Second, this means that although a mother may have a calf once every 4 years, she will not have a calf that reaches reproductive maturity once every 4 years. It may be 90% that survive or 50% that survive, but whatever the percentage is, you can be certain it's not 100%. I agree. But the problem th...

I doubt there are any of you that haven't heard about the threat of extintion of pilot whales, or whales in general. Though, the actual facts are scarce. I'm from a little country called the Faroe Islands, where we hunt pilot whales, and many are concerned that by doing so we contribute to the extin...

I'd say the fundamental unit of space would be a tetrahedron, since you only need four points in space to make a three dimensional object. EDIT: Sorry for bargin in on a conversation I had no understanding of. Someone mentioned "rotational invariance", so I read about it on wikipedia and n...

http://www.physorg.com Great site. It's sort of a science news site. A lot of interesting articles about nanotechnology and computer science, and pretty much everything else too. You can create a user profile so you can favorite articles, and some other handy stuff too. I reckon this site belongs un...

I'm in my last year of high-school, and I'm looking for a math book to use in addition to the one we use in class. I also have a suggestion: Arthur Benjamin's "Secrets of Mental Math" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-Mental-Math-Mathemagicians-Calculation/dp/0307338401/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&am...